HOUSE OF LORDS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2788, 10 May 1911, Page 2

HOUSE OF LORDS.

UNIONIST METHOD OF RE-

FORM

a comprehensive; scheme

[By Electric Telegraph.]

London, May 8.

Lord Lansdowne proposes for the new House of Lords 100 members elected by the hereditary Peers, 100 Crown nominations through the Prime Minister, and 120 elected by outside constitu-

encies, the above to hold office for 12 years, one-fourth retiring every third year, beats will also be found for three Princes of the blood, two archbishops, five bishops elected by the entire episcopal bench, sixteen law lords, and the appeal judges, making a total of 346.